Dawn Prahl poses with two of the family’s four Siberian huskies. On the left is Aspen, and Sequoia is on the right. - Bluff Country, Minnesota 
Area family finds great enjoyment in dog sledding
Two large Siberian huskies named Aspen and Sequoia run together over a snowy cornfield outside of Spring Grove pulling a small dog sled behind them.
Riding on the dog sled is their owner, Dawn Prahl. “Let’s go home,” she called to the dogs, and they turned back to the farm running at full speed.
Prahl put on the brake to slow them down, and they stopped where they had started out.
Prahl said her family’s huskies have been pulling a dog sled for about three years now, ever since they got their first husky, Tahoe.
“Kendra (Prahl’s daughter) wanted a husky when she was about 17 years old,” Prahl explained.
Having had other dogs and their current non-husky, Annie, a 12-year-old border collie, the Prahls knew they wanted one, but were a bit apprehensive.
“They were expensive, and we live close to the road,” she explained.
Then they saw an ad for husky puppies in the Spring Grove Herald. After meeting three “beautiful puppies,” from Pine Ridge Siberians, Prahl said they almost came home with two, but little black-and-white Tahoe joined their family.
Pine Ridge Siberians is located in Hayfield and is run by a family who breeds huskies and also rescues and rehomes huskies and other breeds.